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In between practicing free throws and lay ups, Ricardo Harris watched his 7-year old son play in a pick-up basketball game on the Jewish Community Center (JCC) of Greater New Haven’s renovated court — a resumption of a tradition that took a year-plus break after a fire wrecked the place. “I honestly love the JCC,” said Harris, a 36-year-old barber from Westville who has been a member of the local Jewish recreational, educational and community center for three years.

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Daddy Long Legs raised his guitar in the air midway through his band’s opening set. “New Haven, Connecticut, clap your goddamn hands,” he shouted “Come on, we are all so happy to be back here with Barrence Whitfield and the Savages. They’re gonna rip it up. You know that’s right.”He knew. I knew it. Everyone at Cafe Nine on Friday night knew it. In fact, the ripping up had already begun.

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Somewhere in the middle of his set on Friday night at College Street Music Hall, during a very Prince-like moment where his four person band joined in on a mid-tempo vamp while being introduced, singer Miguel engaged in the standard banter to the crowd — “How’s everybody doing tonight?” and “is everyone having a good time?” Then, without warning, the singer said, with no room for misinterpretation: “Fellas, if she didn’t come here with you, keep your hands off her.” And then reiterated: “If...

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According to one new calculation, the state is filling New Haven’s coffers to the brim with cash. According to another calculation, the state is starving New Haven of cash, leading the city to consider raising taxes 11 percent. Both those calculations add up. It’s the assumptions that change the answer — and offer differing perspectives on why the city is wrestling with painful new fiscal choices. Whom to blame. And how to fix it. The first calculation came from New Haven State Sen. Martin Looney.

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New Haven is on the hunt for new employers — in China. A delegation led by Mayor Toni Harp plans to make three major stops in that nation next month to pop in on companies planning to expand in the U.S. with a pitch to land in New Haven. The ten-day trip begins April 5. The main order of business will be to complete the final task in making official a new “sister city” relationship between New Haven and Changsha, the capital of Hunan province with more than seven million people.

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The man ran from the cops, through traffic, to the edge of the bridge. He was out of control. He turned, grabbed a dark object from his waist, pointed it directly at an officer. It all happened within seconds. And now, the officer, Matt Stevens, had to make a potentially fatal decision: Should he pull the trigger? In seven years on the police force, he’d never had to shoot anyone. Now he had no time to debate the question. He had to rely on instinct. And his training.

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Investments in big banks, pawn shops and rolling papers helped boost public safety workers’ underfunded pensions this past calendar years, according to newly released figures. After recording middling returns in recent years, the Police & Fire Pension Fund (P&F) notched an 11.93 percent gain across its portfolio in 2017, with some profits from real estate and private equity still unrealized.

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Hartford — New Haven State Sen. Gary Winfield had some clean-up business to attend to in a law he authored enabling cops to wear body cameras. The state’s top prosecutor wasn’t having it — and the two ended up sparring about whether cops deserve special rights to check their story before offering sworn statements. The lively debate between Winfield and Chief State’s Attorney Kevin Kane occurred during a hearing Wednesday of the General Assembly’s Judiciary Committee.

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When Tony Zhou first tried Korean fried chicken in 2014, he had no idea that a Korean soap opera was in part responsible for the explosion in popularity of the culinary phenomenon in China, Europe and the United States. All he knew was that, when his wife brought home leftovers one night, the food tasted lighter, crispier and fresher than any fried chicken he had ever had. And that was hours after it had been prepared.

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The city plans to send an inspector out into the field for the first time in a year and half to monitor the hiring of women and minorities on construction projects — with some new digital tools that will ultimately make results visible to the public. That promise was made at City Hall Wednesday night at the monthly meeting of the Board of Commissioners of the the city’s Commission on Equal Opportunities.

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